Disk Manager Prompts You to Continue Every Five Minutes (273988)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional

This article was previously published under Q273988

SYMPTOMS

If your computer has many hard disks, Disk Manager may take a long time to start. During this time, you receive the following message approximately every five minutes and Disk Manager pauses drive enumeration until you click OK:

Local Disk manager not receiving connections. Do you wish to continue?

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:


   Date        Time    Version          Size     File name
   ----------------------------------------------------------
   09/13/2000  4:48PM  2215.2215.297.3  164,112  Dmdskmgr.dll

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbenv kberrmsg kbfix kbWin2000PreSP2Fix KB273988